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Okta Administration: Up and Running

You're reading from   Okta Administration: Up and Running Implement enterprise-grade identity and access management for on-premises and cloud apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566644
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Okta
2. Chapter 1: IAM and Okta FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Working with Universal Directory 4. Chapter 3: Single Sign-On for a Great End User Experience 5. Chapter 4: Increasing Security with Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication 6. Chapter 5: Automating Using Life Cycle Management 7. Chapter 6: Customizing Your Okta GUI 8. Section 2: Extending Okta
9. Chapter 7: API Management 10. Chapter 8: Managing Access with Advanced Server Access 11. Chapter 9: Leveraging Access Gateway for Your On-Premises Applications 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Basic MFA settings

Before deep-diving into Okta's adaptive functionalities, let's look at the basic settings that are available in the Single Sign-On (SSO) licenses. It's possible to set MFA both when signing in to Okta and when signing in to applications. Different levels of security and factors can be set for different logins. As an example, if Okta Verify is determined as safe enough to log in to Okta, biometrics might be added as a factor to log in as an administrator to a business-critical system. Before we can do anything, we have to enable the different kinds of factors available that you want to allow your end users to be able to enroll in. Navigate to Security | Multifactor in the top menu in the administrator console. On the first tab, you will choose which factors you want your end users to be able to use. Remember, any factors you enable aren't mandatory to all end users and are not active until end users actually enroll in them. You have your end users...

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